Works by Queer Writers

The following films are available to the group.  Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with your interests.

 

Tennessee Williams Tennessee William's Film Biographies
A Streetcar Named Desire LeighBrando

A Streetcar Named Desire

(1951)

"A Streetcar Named Desire" is a 1951 American drama, adapted from Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947  play of the same name. It tells the story of a southern belle, Blanche DuBois, who, after encountering a series of personal losses, leaves her aristocratic background seeking refuge with her sister and brother-in-law in a dilapidated New Orleans tenement.

If you've never seen "Streetcar", be warned that much of it is so disturbing that it almost qualifies as a horror movie. You watch as the cruel, selfish and loutish Stanley Kowalski deliberately and vindictively destroys his fragile (and profoundly unlikeable) sister-in-law Blanche Dubois. Stanley is terrifying in his cruelty, but also magnetic in his animal vitality. Brando himself never equalled his performance in "A Streetcar Named Desire".

Starring: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden and Rudy Bond

Director: Elia Kazan

Running Time: 125 minutes (2hours 5 minutes)

A Streetcar Named Desire LangBaldwin    
Baby Doll MaldenBaker    
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof NewmanTaylorIves    
Suddenly Last Summer TaylorHepburnClift    
Summer and Smoke HarveyPage    
Sweet Bird of Youth TaylorHarmon    
The Fugitive Kind BrandoWoodward    
The Glass Menagerie HepburnWaterston    
The Night of the Iguana BurtonGardnerKerr    
The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone LeighBeatty    
The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone MirrenMartinez    
The Rose Tattoo LancasterMagnani    

 

 

 

This website has adopted and enforces a Privacy Policy.
Use of material on this page and this website in general is subject to a Web Use Agreement.
Copyright © 2018 - 2019 Prime Timers Nanaimo